Teaching an Agent Manually via Evaluative Reinforcement (TAMER)
Since 2008
The TAMER project seeks to create agents which can be effectively taught behaviors by lay people using positive and negative feedback signals (akin to "shaping" by reward and punishment in animal training).
W. Bradley Knox bradknox [at] mit edu
Peter Stone pstone [at] cs utexas edu
Ian Fasel ianfasel [at] cs utexas edu
Adam Setapen asetapen [at] cs utexas edu
Learning Non-Myopically from Human-Generated Reward W. Bradley Knox and Peter Stone In In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), March... 2013

How Humans Teach Agents: A New Experimental Perspective W. Bradley Knox and Brian D. Glass and Bradley C. Love and W. Todd Maddox and Peter Stone International Journal of Social Robotics, 4:409-421, 2012. Springer Netherlands. 2012

Learning from feedback on actions past and intended W. Bradley Knox and Cynthia Breazeal and Peter Stone In In Proceedings of 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Late-Break... 2012

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Reinforcement Learning from Human Reward: Discounting in Episodic Tasks W. Bradley Knox and Peter Stone In In Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communi... 2012

Reinforcement Learning with Human and MDP Reward W. Bradley Knox and Peter Stone In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (... 2012

Understanding Human Teaching Modalities in Reinforcement Learning Environments: A Preliminary Report W. Bradley Knox and Peter Stone In IJCAI 2011 Workshop on Agents Learning Interactively from Human Teachers (ALIHT), July 201... 2011

Combining Manual Feedback with Subsequent MDP Reward Signals for Reinforcement Learning W. Bradley Knox and Peter Stone In Proc. of 9th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), May 2010... 2010

Design Principles for Creating Human-Shapable Agents W. Bradley Knox and Ian Fasel and Peter Stone In AAAI Spring 2009 Symposium on Agents that Learn from Human Teachers, March 2009. 2009

Interactively Shaping Agents via Human Reinforcement: The TAMER Framework W. Bradley Knox and Peter Stone In The Fifth International Conference on Knowledge Capture, September 2009. 2009